Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ longtable | Correct Appearance

[buzon]

Hello,
I am struggling with the longtable - I used to have a table in tabular environment before,
but when the table didn't fit well to the page, I decided to try longtable as a solution.

My goal is to have nice long table, automatically broke to the pages.

How to do this correctly? (check my failing code)

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[table]{xcolor} % for colors in tables
\usepackage{tabularx} 
\usepackage{color} % for font color
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{multirow}  % for multirows in tables
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage[Q=yes]{examplep} %for verbatim 

\begin{document}

\begin{longtable}{|c| p{9.5cm}|}
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{ \cellcolor{gray} \textbf{ \Q{\\textcolor{white}{ Title_here }}} } \\  
\hline
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{ \cellcolor{yellow} \textbf{Medium} } \\
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\\
\hline Foo & bar \\
\hline
\caption{\protect\Q{Title_here}}  
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

longtable can break between rows, but it cannot make a page break within a cell. The example has a huge row, which cannot be broken. It would work if you have rows in common height. Perhaps it wasn't a good test example and your real content has normal rows.

Stefan